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USS Gerald R. Ford CVN78 - IMO 4676405
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US Navy Gerald R. Ford Class Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier going west past Fort Monroe Hampton VA towards Norfolk Naval Station.
She is the first of her class, was commissioned in 2017, and is expected to serve for 50 or more years. She has been undergoing a series of trials and training since her commissioning. Here she is returning after a 16 day Independent Steaming Exercise (ISE) with Carrier Air Wing 8.
Trivia Question... What does the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) have 3 of that the other US Navy Carriers have 4? (There are actually two answers).
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She has 3 aircraft elevators and 3 arresting wires, while the previous Nimitz class had 4 each.
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Namesake: Gerald R. Ford
Awarded: 10 September 2008
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding
Cost: $12.8 billion + $4.7 billion research and development
Laid down: 13 November 2009
Launched: 11 October 2013
Sponsored by: Susan Ford
Christened: 9 November 2013
Acquired: 31 May 2017
Commissioned: 22 July 2017
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Status: In active service, as of 2018
General characteristics
Class and type: Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: About 100,000 long tons (110,000 short tons; 100,000 tonnes) (full load)
Length: 1,106ft (337m)
Beam: 134ft (41m) (waterline) 256ft (78m) (flight deck)
Height: approx 250 t (76m)
Decks: 25
Installed power: Two A1B nuclear reactors
Speed: In excess of 30 knots (56km/h; 35mph)
Range: Unlimited
Complement: 2,600+
Armament:
Anti-aircraft missiles:
2 × RIM-162 ESSM launchers
2 × RIM-116 RAM
Guns:
3 × Phalanx CIWS
4 × M2 .50Cal. (12.7mm) machine guns
Aircraft carried: More than 75
EMALS electro magnetic aircraft launch system
Aviation facilities: 1,092ft × 256ft (333m × 78m) flight deck
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